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  2. Catholic Church and race - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church has long had a troubled relationship with the Jewish faith, with Christians having a negative attitude towards Jews [4] and being extremely opposed to them, so much so that it can be noted that there was an extreme "level of hostility against Jews inculcated by the Church", [1]: 817 dating as far back as the sixteenth century, where “blood purity laws” [1]: 816 ...

  3. Black Catholic Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Black Catholic Movement (or Black Catholic Revolution) was a movement of African-American Catholics in the United States that developed and shaped modern Black Catholicism. From roughly 1968 to the mid-1990s, Black Catholicism would transform from pre- Vatican II roots into a full member of the Black Church .

  4. Black Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    Black Catholicism or African-American Catholicism comprises the African-American people, beliefs, and practices in the Catholic Church. There are around three million Black Catholics in the United States, making up 6% of the total population of African Americans, who are mostly Protestant , and 4% of American Catholics .

  5. Racial segregation of churches in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Two explanations were popular in the 1970s. The first, according to black priest Lawrence Lucas, was that Catholicism is a white religion and attracts African-Americans due to their “subconscious desire to be white.” [65] The second reason, offered by sociologists, was that Catholicism provides socioeconomic mobility for black Americans. [65]

  6. Catholic Church and slavery - Wikipedia

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    Catholic clergy, religious orders, and popes owned slaves, and the naval galleys of the Papal States used captured Muslim galley slaves in particular. [5] Some Catholic saints appeared to have owned slaves, including Philemon of Colossae, Gregory of Tours [6] and Marie-Marguerite d'Youville. Catholic teaching began, however, to turn against ...

  7. Black church - Wikipedia

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    A Black Catholic revolution soon broke out, fostering the integration of the traditions of the larger (Protestant) Black Church into Black Catholic parishes. Soon there were organizations formed for Black religious sisters (1968), permanent deacons, seminarians, and a brand-new National Black Catholic Congress organization in 1987, reviving the ...

  8. John LaFarge Jr. - Wikipedia

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    John LaFarge Jr. SJ (February 13, 1880 – November 24, 1963) was an American Jesuit Catholic priest known for his activism against racism and anti-semitism. Involved in the heyday (and eventual breakup) of Thomas Wyatt Turner's Federated Colored Catholics, LaFarge founded an offshoot, the Catholic Interracial Council in New York City.

  9. Christian Identity - Wikipedia

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    It is a racial interpretation of Christianity and is not an organized religion, nor is it affiliated with specific Christian denominations. It emerged from British Israelism in the 1920s and developed during the 1940s–1970s. Today it is practiced by independent individuals, independent congregations, and some prison gangs.